 | 1806 - 504 sider
...his promise by an oath, is finely touched upon in the epistle to the Hebrews. "'When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by .himself, saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying J will multiply tbet For uien verily swear... | |
 | 1804 - 438 sider
...followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after... | |
 | Robert Trail - 1810 - 530 sider
...patience, have inherited the promises. And so will you:" why so ? because when God made the promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself; saying, Surely, blessing, I will bless thee, &c. There are several things of great consideration in... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 586 sider
...followers of them who through faith and patienco inherit the promiscs. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying; I will muldply thee. 1 2 be TUV xcu... | |
 | Joseph Field - 1811 - 358 sider
...being sanctioned with an oath ; so also does the hope of every believer. " For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had... | |
 | 1812 - 292 sider
...before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be bletsed. When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater , he sware by himself. And this I say, that the Covenant that was confirme4 before of God in Christ, the law. which was four... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 sider
...word is evidence enough, As Hive, saith the Lord, Ezek. xxxiii. 11. {St, Paul tells us, because God could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Heb. vi. 13. and in the text now quoted, God employs this kind of speaking an appeal to the most excellent of all... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 sider
...that are in such a case, yea, happy " is that people whose God is the Lord." When " God gave promise to Abraham, because " He could swear by no greater, He sware by himself ;" when he would bless his people, because He could give them no greater, He gave himself. They are... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1814 - 598 sider
...consolation and full assurance, he confirmed the immutability of his counsel by an oath ; and when he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself." Heb. vi. 17. " Do you, then," said Tertullian, " charge the Most High with perjury, or vain swearing ?" Advers.... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 sider
...patient perseverence in search of honor, immortality, and eternal life. " For 4' when God made promise to Abraham, because " he could swear by no greater, he sware by him" self, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, " and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so»... | |
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For men verily swear by the greater : and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
